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Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00107282

Autore

Hont, Istvan

Titolo

Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont ; edited by Béla Kapossy and Michael Sonenscher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; London, : Harvard University press, 2015

ISBN

978-06-7428-617-7

978-06-7496-770-0

Descrizione fisica

XXI, 138 p. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

330.1

Soggetti

Commerce - Philosophy

Economics - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.